A few months ago we published our popular guide, 50 Free Genealogy Sites to Search Today, which has helped tens of thousands of family historians discover new family history resources. Since that time we have learned of many more free genealogy …
Thank you to family history writer Tony Bandy for this helpful article. What if I could show you a free online family history resource with over 13 million digitized books, magazines and other types of materials? Would you be interested? What …
The Massive Free Genealogy Resource You’ve Probably Never Heard Of .
A historic project in underway to bring one of the most important US record collections ever created online — and you can be part of it. FamilySearch.org is currently working in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American …
Historic Freedmen’s Bureau Records Coming Online: What You Need to Know and How to Get Involved .
Genealogy is all about names, events and dates, and Canadian genealogy is no different. All the websites listed below are free, and they cover a wide variety of genealogical subjects in Canada.
Unless you’re a professional genealogist, you’ve probably learned most of what you know about family history research from…well…doing research. Most of us jumped into our family trees when we began our genealogy journey and never looked back, learning the ropes …
Upfront with NGS, the official blog for the National Genealogical Society, has released 120 links to free genealogy resources over the last six weeks. In this series of six posts, Diane L. Richard, editor of Upfront, shares “20 free and relatively new …
Thank you to Dallan Quass of Genealogy Gophers for sharing this information about their free genealogy book search. Researching family histories online is an activity that has begun to come of age. Thousands of family history books and magazines are …
Access 40,000 Genealogy Books for Free With This New Service .
There are few things more useful when conducting US research than free state specific record resources. That’s why we’re working on creating genealogy guides for every state in the Union that feature completely cost-free sites. We’ve discovered many wonderful resources already, but we’d like your …
The U.S. Civil War ended on May 13th, 1865 – but the numerous records created by the War Between the States still provide a glimpse into the lives of those who served. If you had family in the US in the mid-19th …
Free Civil War Records: Discover Your Ancestors Who Fought in the War Between the States .
Many genealogists have dreamed of making their way to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. With genealogy records on more than 3 billion individuals, this family history center hosts the largest collection of its kind found anywhere in the world. But …
Family History Centers: Billions of Free Genealogy Records Are Closer Than You Think .